On 12-06-22 at 03:12pm, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Friday 22 June 2012 12:19:07 gregor herrmann wrote: > > There's only one thing that makes me a bit uneasy: The license terms > > of t/nameprep*. At a first quick reading I'm not convinced this is > > DFSG-free (is modification allowed?). > > Maybe someone else could take a look at this, too. > > The copyright is copied from > > http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/draft-josefsson-idn-test-vectors.html > > The restrictive clause is "However, this document itself may not be > modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or > references to the Internet Society or other Internet organizations, > except as needed for the purpose of developing Internet standards in > which case the procedures for copyrights defined in the Internet > Standards process must be followed, or as required to translate it > into languages other than English." > > I think this clause apply only to the above link. > > IMO, the test vectors in the Perl module tests are a derivative work > of this document and are covered with "derivative works that comment > on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be > prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in part, > without restriction of any kind, provided that the above copyright > notice and this paragraph are included on all such copies and > derivative works." > > So I think this derivative work is DFSG even if the above link is not. Since (I suspect) tests are not crucial, I would prefer to avoid them due to the ambiguity of interpretation. The quoted legalese reminds me of RFC documents which I have been instructed in the past to strip from source to make it DFSG-compliant. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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